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Paper to love our currency must transform, bringing true abundance and wealth.
Aggression in our action and tongue we smelt burning away the impurities revealing the truth which is our fear, Sitting with fear, with true compassion, courage and strength will transmute the venom to true medicine.
Bars and arsenals will melt into art of freedom and peace.

Wrapped up the main components of the structure yesterday and managed to figure a way to run the electrical conduit (for lighting) inside the structure to keep the eye on what’s important! It was a little tricky figuring it out but once I had it visualized it all went into place without a problem!!

I guess the main issue was making the connection between the to pieces of conduit while holding the 16′ piece of steel in place and out of the way enough to make the connection, Then slid the steel beam in place. Using chunks of steel clamped to either side of the frame I was able to accomplish this by myself!!

Now with the structure built, the heavy lifting and tricky figuring behind its on to beautifying it or maybe soften it up a bit…

The brick patio will be laid now, once that’s complete I’ll finish up welding the trellises and running the shade cloth cables across the top!
Here’s a picture from outside the gate, to give a feel, a taste of the theme.
Stay tuned it’s gonna be nice!!…

Started this morning making steel fly as I erected the second side of the patio cover. The job always moves along smoother when you start everything level and square… I guess that’s true with most things in life.

After wrapping up with the steel work I was off to knock some ash logs in to shape. 2 months ago I drove past a house where a husband and his wife were cutting down their tree in the front yard. I noticed they had the majority of the tree down and it was laying on the ground in long lengths! The couple looked frustrated or exhausted at least so I thought I would stop and ask if I could help in exchange for some wood. They were relived and happy to have the help and in fact happy to have someone to haul off all the heavy wood!! I was happy because it was Ash and I had tons of projects to put it to good use!
Fast forward to today and here I am making the bed of a pole lathe and the seat of a shave horse.

Here’s the shave horse seat roughly cut.

And here is the pole lathe bed in about the same state

Next I will need to refine them both add legs etc. we’ll save that for another day.

I’ll leave you with a couple images of a pole lathe and a shave horse.

Today was the first day to erect and weld. This is always the fun part to be able to start seeing the idea and drawing come to life and take shape!
I was forced to channel my inner Roman today as I figured out a way to hoist the 4″x4″x3/16″x20′ top rail and place it on top of the support posts.

I lifted it in steps raising each side incrementally back and forth until at last it reached the top and I was able to tack it in place…ahhh!

With most of the figuring and layout complete I’m hoping to make a bit more progress tomorrow.
Off to my other project